Heater



UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

HERMAN GUTSCHMIDT, OE JERSEY CITY, NE\V JERSEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 532,273, dated January 8, 1895,.

' Application filed $eptember 18, 1394. Serial No. 523,365- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERMAN GUTSCHMIDT, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Heater, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to hot water heaters, and its object is to provide a new and improved heater, which is comparatively simple and durable in construction, and arranged to furnish sufiiicient heat for conveniently and rapidly heating a room by the employment of a lamp or a similar device.

The invention consists in certain parts and details, and combinations of the same, as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in 'both views.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the improvement, on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of the same, on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

The improved heater is provided with a ring-shaped base A, having legs B for supporting the said base a suitable distance above the floor on which the heater stands. In the base A is supported the lower end of a vertically-disposed corrugated shell 0, having the bottom head 0' and the top head 0 as plainly illustrated in Fig. 1, the said heads supporting a centrally disposed heating flue D, made conical, with the base end in the head 0. Into the lower end of this heating flue D, extends the chimney E of a lamp E, set below the head 0' within the legs B of the case, to permit the heat escaping through the chimney to pass directly into and up the heatingfiue D, to heat the latter and the contents of the shell 0. The chimney E is preferably made of sheet metal and provided with mica covered holes to permit of observing the flame and the said' chimney is held on an arm E mounted to slide vertically in suitable bearings in one of the legs B, and adapted to be fastened therein at any desired point. This arrangement enables the operator to conveniently lift the said chimney and hold it in position while lighting the lamp, or for other purposes,

Within the shell 0, and close to its inner corrugated walls, is arranged a vertically disposed cylinder F, extending from the head 0 to the head 0 to form with the heating flue D, a water compartment in which the water rises on account of being heated by the heat passing up the flue D, the said cylinder also forming a series of water compartments, with the corrugations of the shell 0 for the water to descend, the water being cooled by coming in contact with the exterior shell 0. In the upper end of, the cylinderF are arranged passage-ways F, to establish communication between the inner and outer compartments, and

"like passage-ways F are arranged in the lower end of the cylinder F, to establish passage ways between the outer and inner compartments. Now it will be seen that when the water contained in the water compartments is heated by the heat from the flue D, then the water rises in the compartment between the flue D and cylinder F, to pass through the passage-ways F into the outer compartment, thence into the corrugations of the exterior shell C, to descend therein, and to finally pass through the passage-ways F back into the inner compartment, to be again heated and to rise again as previously explained.

The head 0 is connected with and supports a water tank H by pipes G and G, of.

which the pipe G terminates in the bottom of the tank, while the other pipe G extends a suitable distance in the said tank to form an air vent at the time the shell 0 is filled with water. The tank H is inclosed within a hood I, supported on the upper end of the shell 0, and provided in its top I with a removable cover 1 adapted to be lifted by a suitable lifter K, to give the operator access to the tank H, to fill the same with the necessary amount of water, and also to fill the shell as previously described. The upper part of the hood I, as well as its top I, and the lid 1 are perforated to permit air to circulate through the hood, the air entering at the upper ends of the corrugations of the exterior shell 0.

A deflector J is arranged over the upper end of the heating flue D under the bottom of the tank H, to prevent the heat from passing directly onto the bottom of the tank H, and to distribute the heat within the hood I,

before it passes through the openings I in the said hood to the room.

Now it will be seen that by the arrange- ,ment described, the water is caused to circulate rapidly in the shell so that considerable heat is given off by the corrugated shell 0, to heat a room, it being understood that the heat from the lamp Eis sufticient to raise the temperature of the water to a comparatively high degree. It will further be seen that by corrugating the exterior shell 0 the latter forms with the cylinder]? a series of connected and Vertically disposed water circulating compartments, the corrugations taking the place of water circulating tubes heretofore employed. Furthermore, the corrugations greatly 'increase the heating surface, and the water circulating in the same readily gives ofi its heat to heat the air of the room.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 0, the higher pipe G forming an air vent at the time shell 0 is filled with water, a foraminated hood I inclosing the upper end of the shell 0 and its water tank H, and having a removable cover I over the upper open end of said tank, the heat from the flue D discharging under and around the tank H in the chamber formed by the hood I, substantially as described.

HERMAN GUTSCHMIDT.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK 0. You, G. J. LINTON. 

